Genesis 20:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Cross References

Genesis 12:12

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Genesis 20:10

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What were you thinking, that you did this thing?”

Genesis 20:12

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Genesis 22:12

He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Job 1:1

There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Job 28:28

And he said to humankind, ‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 16:6

By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one avoids evil.

Proverbs 2:5

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Romans 3:18

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”